Archive for November, 2006

Installing Apache 2.0.* with PHP 5.* in Windows

November 26, 2006

Much documented as the above process is, a lot of people still get stuck in some part of the installation process or the other (me included). It is not a complicated process really, its just that there are some simple tips and tricks which people have learned the hard way and these tips and tricks [...]

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11 golden rules to become rich writing code for a living

November 24, 2006

Why am I qualified to write this?
I have been an independent software developer in India since 1992 and I always knew software was my calling in life. I started out by writing customised applications for the healthcare industry. This was in the days of MS-DOS - no Windows, no internet, no GUI. Today I write [...]

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The forgotten world of dmoz.org

November 24, 2006

For programmers who often have to search out tech articles or code, the first item of choice is generally google. Some of us have a few favorite sites for particular skillsets and we go and search on them first. When everything fails, google is always the first or last option. Dmoz.org is a human indexed [...]

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The first website of the world’s first ever web server

November 24, 2006

This is the website which has been running since the end of 1989.
Enjoy

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First blog entry on my own website

November 24, 2006

I am moving my blog which is hosted on blogspot to my own website. It gets very cumbersome to manage multiple websites and it makes more sense to concentrate traffic in one place rather than spread it out.
This site was hosted on asp for the last couple of years, I switched it to php as [...]

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